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So far I haven't noticed any missing files, so I'll assume that it's all good. Hopefully by formatting the original drive I won't have lost any data.

It's impractical to move the monitor and get in the cranky small space that the drive sits in just to unplug it every single time. Isn't there a way to unpower all ports when the PC gets turned off?

Whenever I turn off my PC, my external hard drive stays on. It has a little light, and it flashes slowly, the same as when I don't use it, so I'm guessing it's in standby. Is there a way to turn it off completely? I don't think it's good for it to remain always powered on.

I never change that option, so I'm guessing it would be the default 4096 bytes for both of them. Besides, it's the opposite of what you said, the files apparently got somehow smaller when being copied over to the newer drive. I want to be sure that I haven't lost data, since I want to format...

I didn't, but even after enabling them and redoing the copy it's the same result. It was instant too, so there weren't many hidden files anyway. I doubt that would be the case, since it's only 1% fragmented. Still, I've defragmented it, and its size didn't change. In case it wasn't clear what...

I've bought a 4 terabytes external hard drive to substitute my older 1 terabyte drive. I've copied everything there was on it and ended up with this [see attached picture]: On the left it's the old drive and on the right the new one. How is it possible that the same files occupy way less space...